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Nachtschattenreich
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 Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: Genocidal Killer Weed? |
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In Africa they have an evil militia with a funny name:
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| Dily, a Sudanese Arab, recounts how for three years he and his fellow Janjawid charged the farming villages of Darfur on their camels and horses, raking the huts with gunfire and shouting: “Kill the slaves. Kill the slaves.”* He reckons he attacked about 30 villages in all, and cannot count the people he shot. The villages were invariably destroyed, he says. The homes were burnt to the ground and the men, women and children killed — sometimes with the help of government airstrikes. ... Dily said he was pressed to join the Janjawid by tribal elders, who were under pressure from government officials. “We were told we were Arab nomads and we had to protect our lands and our cattle,” he said. |
 
Sudanese villages destroyed by Janjaweed aggression
There is contradicting if any information on the etymology of the name. Alex de Waal reports:
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| Some claim that their name - the Janjawiid - derives from 'G3' (a rifle) and jawad ('horse'), but it is also western Sudanese dialect for 'rabble' or 'outlaws'. |
Wikipedia adds to this:
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The name Janjaweed is often believed to mean something in a dialect of Western Sudan.[3] Generically meaning ‘hordes’ in colloquial Arab, there is no evidence for etymological connection between Janjaweed and ‘jinn’ (spirit), ‘jim’ (‘G’ as in G3 rifle), or ‘jawad’ (horse) or 'ganja,' an American vernacular for marijuana. The Janjaweed are the successor to an earlier Arab tribal militia, the Murahilin (literally “nomads”), which had existed for many years beforehand.[4]
The term is instead a derivative of the Persian word, jang, "war", and jangawee, "warrior." The term was adopted by the Mahdists in Sudan along with the idea of the Mahdi---a lingering tradition of the old Rustamid Ibadi dynasty of Tunisia who hailed from a Persian background. The Ismaili Shia Fatimids dynasty, who conquered the Rustamids, inherited the term and carried it to Egypt, thence Sudan. The Mahdists showed a strong Shia ideological imprint, although they were Sunnis in their belief. The term Janjaweed is an Arabicized version of Jangawee--, which stood for "faith warriors" among the old Shia communitees of North Africa in the medieval times. |
 
United Nations refugee camp inmates, refugee camp staff
Note the use of the Western alphabet by the Africans on the photograph, this may relate to the fact that the current regime of Sudan is propped up by China up to the point that Hujintao builds the new palace of Bashir.*
The very heart of Africa is ravaged by genocidal killers coming under a name under which you probably would expect some sophisticated Rastafarian Cannabis breeding or something, but instead it´s the horror. How does this relate one to another? |
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Nachtschattenreich
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: Current Update |
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The killing in Sudan has been going on for years now, but recentently it is getting worse:
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(March 30, 2007) The U.N. Human Rights Council expressed concern over the situation in Darfur on Friday, but stopped short of criticizing Sudan's government.
The compromise resolution passed by consensus without a vote after Germany agreed to remove any mention of holding Khartoum responsible for the 'armed attacks on civilian population and humanitarian workers, widespread destruction of villages, and continued and widespread violence.' |
I may add that the German government currently is as much in a straddle between Merkel/Steinmeier as the American one is between Bush/Pelosi. But once those killers get an international pardon, they feel emboldened:
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(April 3, 2007) Janjaweed militia attacked two Chadian villages in the volatile southeastern border region close to Sudan, torching houses, randomly shooting those who fled and killing at least 65 people, officials said Tuesday.
Survivors, 2,000 of whom arrived at a refugee camp about 30 miles from their villages, told aid workers that they were attacked by men on horseback, camel-back and in vehicles with heavy weaponry, the U.N. refugee agency said.
The attackers encircled the villages and opened fire, pursuing fleeing villagers, robbing women and shooting the men, many of whom are feared dead, the U.N. agency said in a statement. Corpses were decaying fast because of the heat and would be buried in a common grave, the U.N. said. |
It´s the classical blood for oil:
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While Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and current head of the EU's rotating presidency, indicated last month that she is in favour of sanctions against Sudan, some human rights activists fear that the foreign ministers will stall on actually imposing them. ...
"Some European countries host big companies that have invested in the Sudanese oil sector or otherwise have commercial ties that limit the appetite to take stronger measures against the regime," said the ICG's John Prendergast.
Among the European companies that have done business in Sudan are Austria's OMV Aktiengesellschaft, the Franco-Belgian consortium TotalFinaElf and the Royal Dutch/Shell group. |
But the biggest business is being done beyond the influence of Western governments:
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By rejecting the UN troops and the disarming of the Janjaweed, President Bashir has made impossible attainment of ceasefire which will open ways for delivery of food, medicine and other relief materials to thousands of Darfuris about to die of hunger and disease. The only option left for the UN is to impose sanctions on Sudan. However, the move is being blocked by China, which has threatened to veto any action that would hurt China's economic interests in Sudan. China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and therefore has power to veto such decision by the council.
China buys two-thirds of Sudan's oil and sells its weapons and military aircraft to Sudan. By threatening to veto sanctions on Sudan, China places more premium on its unfettered access to Sudanese oil than on the sanctity of human life. Relying on the Chinese backing, Sudan has continued to reject the UN solution to the Darfur crisis.
For a country without a defined history of colonialism, China should begin to know that its activities and complicity in Darfur could be interpreted as neo-colonial experimentation. |
Colonialism never was unique to the West - any Japanese who knows his nation´s history can confirm. |
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